To illustrate how this works let’s take a look at two pervasive technologies: Spark and Kafka. These two have become hugely popular because of the need for real time data processing – for instance self driving cars, taxi sharing apps, fraud detection or any application where the user needs to be warned immediately. Let’s build a toy real time weather recording and alerting app and experiment together.
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My VMWare homework
I have been playing with VMWare recently and had to learn about it due to its ubiquitous presence on the enterprise market. I feel I now understand its popularity amongst the user base – leaving aside the Broadcom acquisition drama! – and wanted to share my feelings about it after using it in my home lab.
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